[Genealib] Genealogy Room Set-up

[Kate Stirk]

I admit to having very strong feelings on this topic because I'm usually only allowed a few hours to do research while my dear spouse is waiting as patiently as he can...

Please think about your researchers. Put the collection in order by region, then by state and within the state by county. Alphabetically by county. The library in Macon, Georgia is this way.

When people come in to look for family- they look for the county where events happened. Having all the books on that county (marriage, deeds, wills, cemetery, church, etc) together makes it so much easier for your patrons.

Please do not do it strictly by Dewey- those collections are so hard to use because the marriages are all in one area, the cemeteries in another....

 There is a library (which shall remain nameless) close to me that has gone Dewey- and they do not have a catalog in the genealogy area....I just quit going there. No catalog, books on a county in a variety of shelves- chaos for a researcher.

When I go in a genealogy library done strictly by Dewey, I know the catalogers made the decision not the genealogists.....



Kate Stirk, Librarian
Chattahoochee Technical College, North Metro Campus
StirkK at Juno.com


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